Michael Krause is a panellist @ BBC the Forum in a radio program about the life and work of the Serbian-American engineer, Nikola Tesla. Other panellists of the one-hour program are Jasmina Vujic, Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Berkeley, University of California, and a Vice President of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York; and Jane Alcorn the President of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (UK broadcast Sat Nov 25, 2017, 20:06). Podcast/Website here

In the last decade, many books, films, articles have been published about Nikola Tesla. National Geographic will showcase a whole series about the inventor, and even cars are being built nowadays with his name on it. Can you tell me (and us), why is that so? Why is Nikola Tesla so important today? Please send comments. Thank you.

Nikola Tesla’s life represents a perfect canvas for speculative thoughts. One interesting field in this regard is ‘Tesla and women’. A bachelor all his life, Tesla himself made several remarks about his relationships with women: “Marriage for an artist, yes; for a musician, yes; for a writer, yes; but for an inventor, no. The first three must gain inspiration from a woman’s influence and be led by their love to finer achievement, but an inventor has so intense a nature with so much of it in wild, passionate quality that in giving himself to a woman he might love, he would give every thing, and so take everything from his chosen field… It’s a pity, too, for sometimes we feel so lonely…” (Indianapolis Journal, June 19, 1896, p.3.)

Anybody there in Mexico? Someone travelling to Mexico-City? Mexicans interested in Nikola Tesla? Go to the “Future-is-mine”-exhibit in Mexico-City which has already opened doors on March, 9. Open daily 10-6 through June, 12. The menue is magnificent, but in spanish only. See the exhibition, or you might also go there to see Krsto Papic’ “The secret of Nikola Tesla”, or Ridley Scott’s superb classic “Blade Runner”. Entrada es libre, so move!

In January 1943, Nikola Tesla passed away. In January 2016, one of Tesla’s biggest fans, Mr David Bowie, went on his journey to what he called “Dark Star”. May we always remember that there are great characters around even if they are not anymore. Their legacy lives on. R.I.P.